Improvement in confectionery composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK SIBLEY, JAMES HOLMWOOD, JR, AND AUGUST LUGKENBA'OH, OF

BUFFALO, NEW YORK; SAID LUOKENBAGH ASSIGNOR TO SAID SIBLEY AND HOLMWOOD, JR.

IMPROVEMENT IN CONFECTIONERV COMPOSITION.

\ i Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 193,045, dated July 10, 1877 application filed l May 1, 1877.

1 To all whom it may concern i Be it known that we, FRANK SIBLEY, i JAMES HOLMWOOD, J r., and AUGUST LUCK- ENBACH, all of the city of Buffalo, in the y county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Confectioncry Compound, which is fully described in the following specification.

- Our invention consists of a combined chewing-gum and caramel or candy, composed of paraffine, coffee-sugar, and grape-sugar or glucose.

In preparing our combined chewing-gum and candy, we vtake, by weight, onepart of paraffine, three parts of coffee-sugar, (preferably confectioners A sugar,) and six parts of grape-sugar or glucose, adding any desired flavoring and coloring matters. These ingredients are intimately combined by boiling or v cooking-them together for a certain length of time until the mass is cooked to crack. The compound is then cooled, pulled, rolled out, and cut up into pieces of any-desired form or size, in an ordinary manner. Each piece is finally wrapped up in paraffine paper, when the compound is ready for market.

The ingredients may be employed in diii'ereut proportions from those above stated; but we find that those proportions give the best results.

Our improved compound possesses the chewing qualities of ordinary gum, and at the.

' FRANK SIBLEY.

J. HOLMWOOD, JR. AUGUST LUGKENBAOH.

Witnesses: EDWARD WILHELM, GEORGE H. SYKEs. 

